Synonym: absence, deficiency, lack, need, shortage, starvation, want. Antonym: plenty. Similar words: examine, family, familiar, unfamiliar, be familiar with, vitamin, laminated, examining. Meaning: ['fæmɪn] 
n. 1. an acute insufficiency 2. a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death.
n. 1. an acute insufficiency 2. a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death. 
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121 If insects learned to adapt to genetically engineered plants, the result could be widespread crop failure and famine, critics warn.
122 They are launching a massive aid program to help the famine victims.
123 Famine is caused by a failure of distribution, rather than a simple lack of food.
124 Many soon found themselves in long-term debt to richer peasants, particularly in the Famine areas.
125 That army, unimaginably, would worsen under the goading pressures of famine, overpopulation, and bribery.
126 Stalin's man-made famine killed millions; just how many millions is still debated.
127 Then there was the famine relief work, the Ethiopean situation, the Kurdish situation.
128 The aftermath death, flood, famine Cleared tropical forest soon turns to desert.
129 Having children has been a perfectly logical response of families to the hardship and famine which have resulted from these processes.
130 The famine was caused by drought, which led to widespread crop failure.
131 Fakhru told him that the milk was intended for the Faklarn Famine Fund.
132 The country is facing famine, and the authorities are doing little to prevent it.
133 The trust was researching into the possibilities of alleviating famine through cultivating desert.
134 It has inspired legions of compassionate men and women to minister to the needy in times of famine, war and pestilence.
135 News came of the famine, and there were pictures of emaciated children on the TV.
136 Ireland at this period was suffering one of the greatest tragedies of its history - the Great Famine.
137 The Karimojong happily accepted these unexpected free gifts but have not been too enthusiastic about development projects introduced after the famine.
138 Whenever famine strikes, Western public and private relief agencies converge upon it with cargo planes, helicopters and land cruisers.
139 Paradoxically, it was the grain-surplus areas which were most at risk of severe deprivation and periodic famine.
140 In this way famine can be prevented now and in the future.
141 They had the distended bellies and glazed eyes of famine.
142 It hopes to mount 15 flights a day - carrying enough food to feed 500,000 of the most desperate famine victims.
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143 This depleted the famine areas further, and sparked off new hatred amongst the peasants.
144 The renewed fighting comes as international aid agencies gear up to deal with the worst famine to hit the region since 1985.
145 It took fifteen days for telegrams to get from Moscow to Tsaritsyn during the Famine.
146 He is living proof that if the famine doesn't get you, the bullets will.
147 It could mean permanent coastal flooding in some countries and widespread famine in others.
148 The main consequence of the Famine, after human loss of life and suffering, was continuing economic and social instability.
149 Despite the famine in the streets, the members of the club treat themselves to special foods on their meager allowances.
150 Had we any famine? Through an interpreter I replied that things were well and we had no famine.
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